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Amoeba’s Lorica: Quarantine (second part)

Read the first part. Jason stared down the road leading out of the village long after the dawn patrol had disappeared, long after the growling, grinding noises that their personnel carrier made had faded away. Nothing ever traveled down that … Continue reading

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Amoeba’s Lorica: Quarantine

A multi-part work of fiction. Standard disclaimers. Jason – twelve years old, slender but short for his age, close-cropped blonde hair, blue eyes – stared out the living-room window of his cottage at the end of his village’s Main Street, … Continue reading

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Amoeba’s Lorica: Hard Service

Tale no. 4 in the Selective Service series. To read the earlier stories, visit this page. 140722, usually addressed as “14” or by any of a large number of crude epithets, sat on a bench in the gladiator’s locker room, … Continue reading

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